Influence of Alternative Structural, Organizational and Managerial Options on the Role of Evaluation / Jerry P. Walker.

Different structural, organizational, and managerial options greatly influence the role of evaluation. Evaluation serves different functions in organizations of higher and lower autonomy and likewise in progressive and reactive organizations. The role of the evaluator in the organizational hierarchy...

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Main Author: Walker, Jerry P.
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1974.
Subjects:
Administration.
Educational Development.
Educational Research.
Evaluation.
Organization.
Organizational Change.
Organizational Climate.
Organizational Theories.
Research and Development Centers.
Reports, Research.
Genre:
Reports, Research.
Physical Description:18 pages
Format: Microfilm Book
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Summary:
Different structural, organizational, and managerial options greatly influence the role of evaluation. Evaluation serves different functions in organizations of higher and lower autonomy and likewise in progressive and reactive organizations. The role of the evaluator in the organizational hierarchy was dictated by the type of organization. In high autonomy, progressive organizations the evaluator was far removed from those on the production level. In low autonomy, reactionary organizations, the evaluators at times were the same individuals as those on the production level. Such organizational and managerial options had considerable influence on the resultant role and impact of evaluation in a given development effort. (Author/SM)
Note:ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, Illinois, April 1974). Not available in hard copy due to marginal legibility of original document.
Microform.
Call Number:ED100961 Microfiche
Reproduction Note:
Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.